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Dan Hou replied on November 18, 2009 00:46 to the update "Frequent Encountered Synthing Errors" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Here is an update to the error codes. (There seems to be no option to modify the topic directly)

A0000018 – server failure, “Upload Failed”. It happens when the client has some unreliable connection, typically a wireless connection. You could retry by connecting to a wired network.
Related discussion: http://getsatisfaction.com/livelabs/t...

A0000012 now is not indicating a failure anymore.

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Dan Hou replied on November 17, 2009 23:55 to the question "error A0000018" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Marj, this is an UploadFailed error, which means the attempt and retries of uploading photos to our website failed, usually due to the network issue. You could find more information here: http://getsatisfaction.com/livelabs/t...

In addition, could you provide some more information from the .log file for this synth, which could be found at "%tmp%/photosynther" folder. Please paste the content in this thread so that we could take a deeper look at this problem. Thanks!

Dan Hou replied on August 24, 2009 16:51 to the question "Copyright in the viewer?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Harald, the Copyright option you selected in the synther dialog not reflected in the viewer is because you have the CopyRight field in the image properties specified as "2009 Harald Pfaffermayr" for every image, which gets uploaded and the copyright you selected in synther is ignored. However, it is not a valid Creative Common license url for the viewer to display the corresponding icon.

The workaround for this before we have a fix is to clear the CopyRight field of properties for all your images and then select the desired copyright option in the synther. Please let me know if this solves your problem.

Dan Hou replied on June 08, 2009 19:32 to the question "windows host process has stopped woking (rundll32)" in Microsoft Live Labs:

hi martire, could you provide more information about the machine you were running on? Does this always happen, have you tried to add less photos and still got this problem?

Dan Hou replied on April 21, 2009 18:02 to the problem "Publish error" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Bill, is the synther progress bar just gets stuck in the publishing stage or i shows publish completed but the link is broken?

Dan Hou replied on April 13, 2009 20:48 to the question "Where is the start synth button?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Big Bad Brune,

What is the monitor resolution you are using? Or are you using a netbook? It looks like the buttons are cut off due to small screen size (the white space circled in red is smaller than regular). The current synther dialog is about 530 pixels in height. Thanks.

Dan Hou replied on February 23, 2009 09:00 to the question "PhotoSynth's 'Matching images' is still done on a single core" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi adinelichleam, thanks for diagnosing the performance. In fact, "Matching Images" is indeed multi-threaded in the program, and only the later step "Reconstructing Scene" is done on a single core. Maybe you are referring to the later one?

Dan Hou replied on February 15, 2009 06:07 to the question "how many photos do i have to add for the Synth button to get abled?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

you will need to also give it a name to have the synth button get enabled.

Dan Hou replied on February 02, 2009 20:24 to the question "Wake up the Lazy Susan" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Pierrot, could you point us where your synth is?

Dan Hou replied on January 29, 2009 20:12 to the question ""Photosynth has encountered a problem"" in Microsoft Live Labs:

This is likely due to your processor doesn't support SSE2. We have released a fixed version on Dec 18th. So if your version of Photosynth was installed before that, could you try to reinstall Photosynth from our website?

A comment on the problem "Error 80004005 right after selecting photos" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi PopEye, it happens after adding the images, but before hit "synth" button or after? – Dan Hou, on January 29, 2009 01:11

A comment on the question "Why do I get a Failed (error 80070005) on starting a Synth" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Were there other programs that are accessing the same photos when you started a synth on them? – Dan Hou, on January 28, 2009 02:17

Dan Hou replied on January 24, 2009 20:53 to the question "i get a falied error (A0000013) - what does that mean" in Microsoft Live Labs:

The error happens when it retries to commit a already commited synth. http://getsatisfaction.com/livelabs/t... . Was your synth in fact successfully uploaded?

A comment on the question "What does Error 80004005 mean ?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Or, did you see something like "NavToolkit exception: xx, line xx" somewhere before "CollectionWriter.cpp(2130) hr(80004005)" ? – Dan Hou, on January 22, 2009 19:59

A comment on the question "What does Error 80004005 mean ?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

in your case, it looks like there is exception happen during navigation relationship computation. could you check the log file to see whether there is a line like "NavToolkit exception: xx, line xx", somewhere before CollectionWriter.cpp(2130) hr(80004005) ? Thanks. – Dan Hou, on January 22, 2009 19:57

A comment on the question "What does Error 80004005 mean ?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi ZogStrip, is 17:52:32 HR test fail <>\CollectionWriter.cpp(2130) hr(80004005) the first place where 80004005 occurs? – Dan Hou, on January 22, 2009 19:42

A comment on the question "What does Error 80004005 mean ?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

It looks like most of people are having this error after selecting photos. Are you still getting this error? Are those photos located on your disk or on some share? Are they all larger than 48x48? – Dan Hou, on January 22, 2009 19:41

A comment on the question "What does Error 80004005 mean ?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi hopefornuts, are you still getting this error? Are those photos located on your disk or on some share? Are they all larger than 48x48? – Dan Hou, on January 22, 2009 19:40